The social networking pioneer, which has fallen to second-rate status in a world where and dominate, announced on Tuesday that it's making some significant changes to the site.

Friendster sent an email to users and posted some , noting that it's working on launching a "new and improved" site in coming weeks that won't include all the data users have stored there.

That means users' accounts will not be deleted but their messages, blogs and photos will all be disappearing. Users have until May 31 to retrieve anything they want to keep.

Fear not. Friendster has supplied users with an exporter application that will help them download their content or move it to another social networking site.

Friendster, which was popular in the days prior to the , is making the change to its site to focus more on entertainment, the company says.